If you have a CIDU, or something for the Arlo, Ewww or ChadWatch collections, please e-mail them to cidumay2004 (at) yahoo.com (If you post it here in the Comments section, I might or might not see it). It would be best if you could send me both the comic and the comic’s URL, because sometimes a comic sent as an attachment doesn’t make it through, nad sometimes URLs stop working.

I’m not sure where to make a comment about this, but isn’t there some way to separate the comments on the Arlo page so that the comments that pertain to one comic are all together? Not that I don’t think the site is great overall. 😉

Pinny, if it’s a comic strip that’s appeared here often, there’s probably a link to the strip’s homepage in the right-hand column. A link to the page on which that specific strip appeared (other than being somewhat useless, since you’re already seeing the strip) wouldn’t really work, since most of the comics I use are e-mailed to me, and most strips don’t remain archived online for more than a few weeks.

Some say it’s just Crankshaft’s own Archie Bunker-like personality, but others are wondering if Batiuk was implying that old ladies don’t get raped because they’re not sexy. This isn’t just factually inaccurate (old ladies are raped all the time; in fact they’re a prime target for stranger rapists) but seems to imply that rape victims are to blame for their attacks because of their looks.

Also, aren’t elderly people mugged all the time? So what the heck is Crankshaft saying?

Sure she’s cute, but she’s probably old enough to be his mom… and she’s *such* a mom that it just creeps me out. It would have been fine if Arlo had named Blondie as the object of his fantasy. Sure, she’s old enough to be his grandmother, but she’s such a cougar with the high heels and tight clothes…

Hi & Lois first appeared in 1954, and Chip was 8 years old at the time. Even if Lois gave birth to him at 18, that would make her 79 this year. Blondie started in 1930, and married Dagwood in 1933 – but as I said, she’s still one hot cougar. Would she be a Grand-MILF?

We had a lot of comments these last couple of weeks about depressing themes in comics (e.g., Cancer in “Funky Winterbean”, stroke in “For Better or for Worse”). Well, this commentary finally made it onto the comics page itself.

This past Sunday’s “Single & Confused” strip by Matt Janz (I think that the strip used to be called “Out of the Gene Pool”) specifically addressed these two instances of comics having depressing themes.